{"id":58,"date":"2018-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garmerprather.lawblogger.net\/blog\/having-surgery-you-will-want-to-read-this-first\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:45:37","slug":"having-surgery-you-will-want-to-read-this-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/having-surgery-you-will-want-to-read-this-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Having surgery? You will want to read this first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any number of circumstances could land you in one of Kentucky&#8217;s hospital operating rooms. You might be one of many who have scheduled elective surgeries &#8212; perhaps cosmetically-based or because you&#8217;ve been told that a particular surgery may help improve your health in some way. Then again, you may undergo surgery in a much more urgent situation, such as those that often occur following motor vehicle accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what prompts your surgery, you, like all other Kentucky residents, have the right to reasonably assume that all the doctors, nurses and other licensed professionals caring for you will conduct themselves according to accepted safety standards and protocol regulations set forth in the medical industry. Sadly, surgical errors are one of the most common types of situations that often lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/Medical-Malpractice\/Surgical-Errors\/index.html\">medical malpractice litigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beware of these frequently reported medical mistakes<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/having-surgery-you-will-want-to-read-this-first\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Having surgery? 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Then again, you may undergo surgery in a much more urgent situation, such as those that often occur following motor vehicle accidents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surgical-errors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Having surgery? You will want to read this first &#8212; Kentucky Injury Law News &#8212; May 29, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Any number of circumstances could land you in one of Kentucky&#039;s hospital operating rooms. 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